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Firmin, January 2009
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January 2009
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Featuring: Firmin
176 pages
ISBN: 0385342659
EAN: 9780385342650
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Fiction | Fantasy
In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a
shredded copy Finnegans Wake, nurtured on a diet of Zane
Grey, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Jane Eyre (which tastes a
lot like lettuce). While his twelve siblings gnaw these
books obliviously, for Firmin the words, thoughts, deeds,
and hopes—all the literature he consumes—soon consume him. Emboldened by reading, intoxicated by curiosity, foraging
for food, Firmin ventures out of his bookstore sanctuary,
carrying with him all the yearnings and failings of humanity
itself. It’s a lot to ask of a rat—especially when his home
is on the verge of annihilation. A novel that is by turns hilarious, tragic, and hopeful,
Firmin is a masterpiece of literary imagination. For here, a
tender soul, a vagabond and philosopher, struggles with
mortality and meaning—in a tale for anyone who has ever
feasted on a book…and then had to turn the final page.
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